3m1w (or, Very, Very Small Things)

3m1w (or, Very, Very Small Things) by Jesse Kellerman

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Productions (4)
Comedy
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100 - 120 minutes
1 W, 3 M, 
Content Notes: Adult language
Set: Simply, flexible set -- hinged bare flats may be used, with furniture brought on and off as needed.

What happens when a woman with unbelievable beginner's luck ruins her husband's perfectly manly poker game (Poker and the Declaration of the Rights of Man)? Or when a businessman stays at the world's best hotel where the world's most polite bellhop will fetch any possible thing, at any time, instantly (Whatever, Whenever)? Or when a professor assigns her students to interpret the phone book (A Metaphor)? The six short comedies of 3m1w have their way with the Great Pillars of American Life: government, science, literature, fashion, poker, and room service. Read More

Pricing Information

Min. Performance Fee* $85
Standard Edition $13.99
Stage Manager Edition $24.99
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
Archival Video License $150

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Play Details

What happens when a woman with unbelievable beginner's luck ruins her husband's perfectly manly poker game (Poker and the Declaration of the Rights of Man)? Or when a businessman stays at the world's best hotel where the world's most polite bellhop will fetch any possible thing, at any time, instantly (Whatever, Whenever)? Or when a professor assigns her students to interpret the phone book (A Metaphor)? The six short comedies of 3m1w have their way with the Great Pillars of American Life: government, science, literature, fashion, poker, and room service.

To purchase this book of 6 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

  • Crossed Wires
  • The Formidable Task of Execution
  • Poker and the Declaration of the Rights of Man
  • Whatever, Whenever
  • A Metaphor
  • Moda

    • Comedy
    • |
    • 100 - 120 minutes
    • 1 W, 3 M, 
    • Content Notes: Adult language
    • Set: Simply, flexible set -- hinged bare flats may be used, with furniture brought on and off as needed.
  • Published Reviews

    "Knife-edge wit... Jesse Kellerman's dynamic comedy views the lofty tenets of Yankee culture through the wrong end of the telescope. The effect reduces Uncle Sam to dwarf-life proportions and the audience to tears of laughter. Brilliantly executed... slicker than Seinfeld and twice as funny... cultural satire for connoisseurs."

    The Scotsman

    "Drawing on the best techniques of a long line of comic genius from the Goons to the Pythons, this fast-moving series of six madly funny sketches is brilliant and sophisticated off-the-wall comedy at its very best... A couple of the vignettes are close to the best comedy I have ever seen. I still ache from laughing."

    Three Weeks (Edinburgh)

    Production History

    MAY 16, 2008 - MAY 17, 2008
    Central High School Drama
    Woodstock, VA United States
    Central High School Drama Woodstock, VA United States
    MAY 01, 2008 - MAY 31, 2008
    Central High School
    Woodstock, VA United States
    Central High School Woodstock, VA United States
    AUG 01, 2001 - AUG 31, 2001
    Edinburgh Fringe Festival
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    Edinburgh Fringe Festival Edinburgh, Scotland
    MAY 11, 2000 - MAY 14, 2000
    Harvard College's Adams House Pool Theater
    Cambridge, MA United States
    Harvard College's Adams House Pool Theater Cambridge, MA United States
    No upcoming productions.
    No professional productions.

    Awards (3)

    Critic's Choice, The Scotsman/, (2001)

    Pick of the Edunburgh Fringe (2001)

    Showstoppers (Top 1% of Fringe Productions), (2001)